sad day....

when the jury in the William  Porter trial is locked and so a mistrial is declared. Also just listened to the Lehrer show on WNYC.  For the first time really heard first hand accounts of how responsible people are locked into the shelter system  The DeBlasio administration is giving them a head up by creating the link system, but all the other DeBlasio policies favor gentrification so strongly that it really does not matter. Really sad.
Yesterday, four sessions, really tired today, returned home with a little energy but could just get myself to Bourbon Street bar, a bar that I know nothing will ever happen in (or at least has not happened yet). I go there because it is easy to watch sports, hoped that the Knick game would be a little more interesting than it was---but left after third quarter with Knicks substantially in the lead.
  Yesterday took out a new book by Anne Roiphe, about an elderly shrink---interesting so far, am familiar with the themes of her two past books. She creates an upper class world of intellectuals all living on the upper west side, sometimes I feel she sees them as empty, other times i feel she embraces their entitlement. Still, no awareness that the city is filled with "others", that poverty might lurk only a few blocks away.
This brings up the whole issue---are works of art that avoid the issues of poverty or race and class really avoidances. Even if they are "serious" within themselves. Don't know, simply feel a "cut" there,
What happens today...? Not sure, now I find out that a friend has an 11 o'clock show at the Flea theater. Tonight might be the only time that I can go. Should I?  All this running around, where is it getting me?  Still, nice to have so many options. Anyway, shall report on more tomorrow or Saturday.